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April 2013 sees the release of Abbe May's new album Kiss My Apocalypse.

Over the past few weeks you might've heard the record's guitar-sparse lead single 'Karmageddon' doing the rounds on triple j. That tune is poles apart from her riff-riddled 2011 album Design Desire and if it's any indication of what's to come; fans should start bracing themselves for something pretty different.

"I think we might lose a few people," Abbe admitted to triple j this week.

"But you can't make music to please people because you just won't."

Despite the change in sonic approach, Abbe has again enlisted the help of producer and close friend Sam Ford on the record. While chatting to Richard Kingsmill on 2012 over the weekend, Abbe said that was a tough decision to make.

"This is going to sound really strange," she started.

"It was between Sam Ford and another chap - who shall remain unnamed - and I couldn't make a choice between the two so I had a strange tarot reading to choose. It was just a weird kind of way to decide which one to go to."

Even though she admitted it was "strange", Abbe said it's not the first time she's used tarot cards to help her make a decision.

"I use it all the time. I like things like that. The way someone described it to me before was its not so much trying to predict the future, it's more about trying to read yourself.

"If you think about it like you're putting your ear to the train track - and I don't recommend this to anybody - and hearing the vibrations coming down the line, it helps you understand when and how fast a train is coming at you. You're going to want to time that pretty well though.

"But I don't consider it to be a hokey-pokey future reading type of thing. I see it more as a way to access an intuition we all have. Without sounding like too much of a hippie deuchbag, your internal vibrations can help you make choices.

Abbe May's Kiss My Apocalypse is out April next year. Her Karmageddon Tour kicks off next month, check out her tour itinerary below: